Dr. Amjad Riar completed internal medicine training at St. Agnes Hospital and Johns Hopkins Baltimore. He completed his fellowship in palliative medicine at George Washington University. Prior to joining Baltimore medical system for several years Dr. Riar was division vice president and national medical director for Kindred Healthcare. In this role with nation’s largest postacute and community care provider he was responsible for clinical perational excellence and managed post-acute care operations, clinical quality while oversee 126 medical directors in the community settings across 18 states. He was also senior medical director at Optum/United Healthcare and helped setup end-to-end post-acute care continued care model leveraging telehealth and predict analytics to reduce costs and improve quality of care for health plan members. He joined Baltimore Medical System as Senior consulting medical officer and Center Medical Director responsible for system’s second largest health center’s day-to-day operations and quality. He helped strengthen hospital partnership and improved center operational workflows and was recently appointed to system’s Chief Operating Officer. In his current role as Chief Operating Officer he is responsible and leads team for expansion projects, systems modernization projects, pharmacy operations, managed care organization contract management, and overall company’s strategic direction.
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